Autumn 2023 Undergraduate Courses

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Courses:

History 2080- African American History to 1877

Instructor: Shaw, Stephanie

Days/Time: MW, 11:10AM-12:30PM

Description: The study of the African American experience in America from arrival through the era of Reconstruction, focusing on slavery, resistance movements, and African American culture.

Prerequisites and Special Comments: Prereq or concur: English 1110.xx, or completion of GE Foundation Writing and Information Literacy Course, or permission of instructor. Not open to students with credit for 323.01 or AfAmASt 2080. GE historical study course. GE foundation historical and cultural studies course. Cross-listed in AfAmASt.

History 2302- History of Modern Africa, 1800 - 1960s

Instructor: Sikainga, Ahmad

Days/Time: TR, 11:10AM-12:30PM

Description: Thematic survey of African history from 1800 to the 1960s.

Prerequisites and Special Comments: Prereq or concur: English 1110.xx, or completion of GE Foundation Writing and Information Literacy Course, or permission of instructor. Not open to students with credit for AfAmASt 2302. GE historical study course. GE foundation historical and cultural studies course. Cross-listed in AfAmASt.

History 3307- History of African Health and Healing

Instructor: McDow, Thomas

Days/Time: WF, 9:35-10:55AM

Description: This course explores approaches to health and healing in sub-Saharan Africa over the last 150 years. By using a historical perspective on health and healing, we see why specific diseases emerge, why they persist, and what their consequences are for African societies. Diseases we will consider include cholera, sleeping sickness, malaria, tuberculosis, and HIV/AIDS, among others. The course is also interested in African experiences of being unwell.

While students will gain some biological or technological understanding of diseases and causes of illness, the course focuses on the wider social or economic consequences that promote disease and illness. By investigating illness, we can consider the ways that different governments (colonial and post-colonial) have attempted to control disease and control the people disease affected; the rise and elaboration of tropical medicine as a field; and the impact of colonial and post-colonial policy on land use, ecology, and human settlement. In addition, by thinking about health and what makes one healthy, we can find insights into societal values, and look at the overlapping and contradictory therapeutic traditions (grounded in both popular and biomedical treatments) that African people have used to regain health.

Prerequisites and Special Comments: Prereq or concur: English 1110.xx, or completion of GE Foundation Writing and Information Literacy Course, or permission of instructor. GE historical study and diversity global studies course. This course fulfills Group Africa, pre and post-1750, ETS, PCS for history majors or it can fulfill a GE requirement.

History 3312- Africa & World War II

Instructor: Sikainga, Ahmad

Days/Time: TR, 2:20-3:40PM

Description: This course examines the history of the nationalist, revolutionary, and socialist movements in Africa in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. The course will begin with a discussion of the establishment and the legacy of European colonial rule in Africa, and proceeds to examine the development of African nationalism and decolonization. Using a variety of secondary and primary sources as well as films and documentaries, the discussion will illuminate the complexities and the ideologies that informed the nationalist movements in Africa. The anti-colonial protests and the nationalism movements in Africa produced many charismatic leaders and intellectuals whose ideas and writings had a lasting impact on the nationalist and the post-colonial discourse in Africa. They included figures such as Kwame Nkrumah, Julius Nyerere, Patrice Lumumba, and Amilcar Cabral, just to name a few. The course will also examine the way in which conflict and tensions involving such issues as race, ethnicity, gender, and class have shaped nationalist thought, strategies, agenda, and the post-colonial realities in Africa. The last part of the course will focus on the theory and practice of socialism in Africa by looking at specific examples from countries such as Tanzania, Mozambique, Burkina Faso, and Ethiopia. We will conclude by assessing the experiences and the success and failures of these regimes and their impact.

History 3314- From Rubber to Coltan: A Long History of Violence and Exploitation in Central Africa

Instructor: Van Beurden, Sarah

Days/Time: WF, 12:45-2:05PM

Description: What does your cellphone have to do with conflict in central Africa? And what did the rubber boom of the late 19th century have to do with colonial violence in the same region? And how are these related? This course will help you understand how the past has shaped the present in central Africa, and how global economic systems are connected to localized violence.

The Great Lakes region in Central Africa is home to some of the world’s most prized economic resources. Based on an economy ravaged by the slave trade, a 19th century colonial extractive system emerged that focused first on ivory, later on rubber, and expanded in the 20th century to include diamonds, copper, gold, uranium, and lately coltan, crucial for the development of cellphone and computer technology. After a tumultuous decolonization, the region became home to some of the more violent conflicts of the past decades, including the Rwanda Genocide and the ongoing conflict in Eastern Congo.

This course will explore how the histories of economic exploitation, political authoritarianism, and the supposedly ethnic conflict in this region are intertwined, and how seemingly local conflicts have global roots. The first two modules of this course focus on the colonial history of the area, which was colonized in the late 19th century by the Belgian king Leopold II (Congo), Germany (Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania) and the UK (Uganda). The second part of the course will focus on the post-colonial history of the region, starting with the reign of the military dictator Mobutu and the continued economic exploitation of the Congo, to the Rwanda genocide, the UN missions in the region, the Great War of Africa, and the continuing conflicts in eastern Congo. We will explore the role of conflict minerals, international media reporting on the conflict (particularly on the violence against women), and the role of guerrilla groups such as M23 and the Kony soldiers in the conflict.

Required Texts / Assigned Readings: 

Books

Adam Hochschild, King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1998)

Mamhood Mamdani, When Victims Become Killers: Colonialism, Nativism and the Genocide in Rwanda. (Princeton University Press 2001)

Theodore Trefon, Congo’s Environmental Paradox. Potential and Predation in a Land of Plenty. Zeb Bookds, 2016. (selections)

Articles (examples):

Charlotte Mertens and Ann Aludati, “Resources and Rape: Congo's (toxic) Discursive Complex” African Studies Review 62 (4) (2019): 57-82

Iva Peša,”Mining, Waste and Environmental Thought on the Central African Copperbelt, 1950-2000,” Environment and History, 2021

Reports

UN Panel of Inquiry (2009) Final Report of the Panel of Experts on the Illegal Exploitation of Natural resources and other forms of wealth of the DR Congo, New York: Unites Nations.

Assignments: Debate, weekly reading posts, midterm, final, paper

Prerequisites and Special Comments: Prereq or concur: English 1110.xx, or completion of GE Foundation Writing and Information Literacy Course, or permission of instructor. GE historical study and diversity global studies course. This course fulfills Group Africa, post-1750, SOJ for history majors or it can fulfill the historical study GE requirement and global diversity.

History 3080- History of Slavery in the US

Instructor: Cashin, Joan

Days/Time: WF, 9:35-10:55AM

Description: In this course, we will discuss the history of slavery in North America from the colonial era to the Civil War. We will include material on bondage in other societies, but the focus will be on African American slavery in what is now the United States. We will explore various aspects of the slave experience, such as work, religion, family life, resistance, and rebellion. We will also discuss free blacks, people of mixed race, yeoman whites, and slave owners, as well as the significance of slavery as a culture, economic, and political issues.

Assignments: Students will read several monographs, write several short papers, and take one exam.

Prerequisites and Special Comments: Prereq or concur: English 1110.xx, or completion of GE Foundation Writing and Information Literacy Course, or permission of instructor. Not open to students with credit for 559 or AfAmASt 3080. . This course fulfills Group North America, post-1750, PCS, REN for the history major.

History 3085- African American History Through Contemporary Film

Instructor: Jeffries, Hasan

Days/Time: M, 12:00-2:45PM

Description: Uses contemporary film to explore the history of African American life, culture, politics, and resistance.

History 1151 – American History to 1877

Instructor: Teague, Greyson

Session 2 (10/16/2023 – 12/06/2023)

Days/Time: Online, Asynchronous

Description: The political, constitutional, social, and economic development of the United States from the colonial period through the era of Reconstruction.

Prerequisites and Special Comments: Prereq or concur: English 1110.xx, or completion of GE Foundation Writing and Information Literacy Course, or permission of instructor. Not open to students with credit for 1150 or 2001. GE historical study course. GE foundation historical and cultural studies course. This course is available for EM credit.

History 1152 – American History since 1877

Instructor: Meier, Dustin

Session 2 (10/16/2023 – 12/06/2023)

Days/Time: Online, Asynchronous

Description: The political, constitutional, social and economic development of the United States from the end of Reconstruction to the present.

Prerequisites and Special Comments: Prereq or concur: English 1110.xx, or completion of GE Foundation Writing and Information Literacy Course, or permission of instructor.

History 2001- Launching America

Instructor: Grimsley, Mark

Days/Time: TR, 11:10AM-12:30PM

Description: In this class, we will discuss the social, economic, cultural, and political history of the American people from the Age of Discovery to the eve of the Civil War. We will include the experiences of Native Americans, Africans, and Europeans, in all parts of what is now the United States. We will explore the lives of famous historical figures as well as ordinary people. The course will include readings in secondary sources (works by historians) as well as primary sources (works created by historical figures). The students will write some short papers on both kinds of sources, and they will discuss some of these sources in class.

Assignments: Online reading essays; In class quizzes; Team Poster project; Final paper

Prerequisites and Special Comments: Prereq or concur: English 1110.xx, or completion of GE Foundation Writing and Information Literacy Course, or permission of instructor. Not open to students with credit for 1152. GE historical study and diversity soc div in the US course. This course fulfills Group North America, pre and post-1750, PCS, CCE for the history major or it can fulfill a GE requirement.

History 2002- Making America Modern

Instructor: Steigerwald, David

Days/Time: MWF, 10:20-11:15AM

Description: From the aftermath of the Civil War to the 2000s, this course offers a sweeping survey of American history since 1865. The story of America that unfolds is one of perpetual contest between competing cultures, political factions, and institutions, each struggling to define the meaning of freedom and citizenship within the United States and beyond its borders. It is a story filled with contradictions, one featuring moments when economic progress coincided with egregious violations of social justice and progressive reform melded with retrogressive repression. Our primary objectives in this course are the following: to identify key moments when Americans sought to reconcile competing visions of democracy and to catalog the key figures and social and political conflicts that helped shape modern America.

Throughout the semester, you will come to know personalities from the past by reading letters, speeches, and book excerpts from specific time periods. You will also have the opportunity to watch YouTube clips featuring historical footage and radio recordings of key historical moments. Students in the course will evaluate and interpret these primary sources each week and construct historical insights to share with fellow students in discussion section. Often the readings, videos, and radio recordings for the week will offer insights into contemporary issues we face today. Through short essays, each student will make connections between key historical events in the past and present-day issues facing our nation.

Prerequisites and Special Comments: Prereq or concur: English 1110.xx, or completion of GE Foundation Writing and Information Literacy Course, or permission of instructor. Not open to students with credit for 1152. GE historical study and diversity soc div in the US course. This course fulfills Group North America, post-1750, PCS, REN for the history major or it can fulfill a GE requirement.

History 2010- History of American Capitalism

Instructor: Elmore, Bartow J

Days/Time: TR, 12:45-2:05PM

Description: Study of the evolution of "American Capitalism" from pre-capitalist economies of the medieval period to the early 21st century.

Prerequisites and Special Comments: Prereq or concur: English 1110.xx, or completion of GE Foundation Writing and Information Literacy Course, or permission of instructor. Not open to students with credit for 387. GE historical study course. GE foundation historical and cultural studies course.

History 3001- American Political History to 1877

Instructor: Elmore, Bartow J

Days/Time: TR, 2:20-3:40PM

Description: The origins and development of American politics from early modern origins and national revolution to the era of Civil War and Reconstruction. Sometimes this course is offered in a distance-only format.

History 3014- Gilded Age to Progressive Era, 1877-1920

Instructor: Wood, Josh

Days/Time: Online, Asynchronous

Session 2 (10/16/2023 – 12/06/2023)

Description: Advanced study of U.S. social, political, cultural, foreign policy history from 1877-1920: Industrialization; immigration; urbanization; populism; Spanish-American War; progressivism; WWI.

History 3015- From the New Era to the New Frontier: The United States, 1921-1963

Instructor: Stebenne, David

Days/Time: TR, 11:10AM-12:30PM

Description: Examination of the major political, economic, social and cultural changes in the USA from the end of World War I through the early 1960’s. Emphasis on the polarized nature of American life in the 1920’s; the seismic shocks brought by the Great Depression, World War II, and the Cold War; how they helped propel the revival of a much bigger middle class and the decline of social polarization during the 1950's; and the problems that new social system began to create.

Required Texts / Assigned Readings:

Lisa McGirr, The War on Alcohol: Prohibition and the Rise of the American State (2016)
Jane Ziegelman and Andrew Coe, A Square Meal: A Culinary History of the Great Depression (2017)
John Hersey, Hiroshima (1985 ed.)
Richard Fried, The Russians are Coming! The Russians are Coming!: Pageantry and Patriotism in Cold-War America (1998)
Alan Ehrenhalt, The Lost City: Discovering the Forgotten Virtues of Community in the Chicago of the 1950’s (1996)
Ira Katznelson, When Affirmative Action was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America (2005)
Joyce Johnson, Minor Characters: A Beat Memoir (1994)

Assignments: A midterm, a final and a short (5-7 page) paper based on the assigned reading.

History 3016- The Contemporary U.S. since 1963

Instructor: Howard, Clayton

Days/Time: MWF, 11:30am – 12:25pm

Description: Advanced study U.S. political, economic, social, and cultural changes since 1963: political polarization; post-industrial economy/consumer economy; civil rights, feminism, environmentalism, Vietnam, detente, and globalization.

History 3017- The Sixties

Instructor: Steigerwald, David

Days/Time: MWF, 12:40 – 1:35pm

Description: Examination of postwar America's pivot point, focusing on civil rights; liberal, radical, and conservative politics; sweeping social, cultural, and economic change; and the Vietnam War.

History 3030- History of Ohio

Instructor: Coil, William

Days/Time: Online, Asynchronous

Description: Survey of economic, social, political development of the geographic area that became Ohio from Native Americans to present.

History 3040 - The American City

Instructor: Howard, Clayton

Days/Time: MoWeFr: 1:50pm – 2:45pm

Description: History of the American city (urban-suburban) from colonial times to the early 21st century.

Prerequisites and Special Comments: Prereq or concur: English 1110.xx, or completion of GE Foundation Writing and Information Literacy Course, or permission of instructor. GE historical study and diversity soc div in the US course. GE theme lived environments course.

History 3041- American Labor History

Instructor: Irwin, Raymond

Days/Time: W, 3:55-5:15PM

Description: Most Americans work and nearly all workers will have multiple careers in their lifetimes. Quite a few have more than one paid job at a time. Labor is essential in every society, but how have workers in the United States arrived at their various notions of labor? How has the meaning of work in the United States changed over time? In what ways have group characteristics, educational levels, and global contexts shaped labor markets from the eighteenth century to the present? What might be the future of labor in America? From indentures and slavery to artisanship, agriculture and industrialization to the service, information, and so-called “gig” economies, this course will set the broad context for labor in the U.S. today and will consider, among other things, matters of compensation, discrimination, unionization and anti-unionization, “right to work” and “closed shops,” job categorization and income inequalities, business and government practices, federal policies, and labor case law. We’ll even peer into the future and surmise what might become of labor in the United States, based upon historical trends, the current environment, and both private and public proposals involving work.

Required Texts / Assigned Readings: All materials for this course will be freely available. They include an online text with PowerPoint notes, scholarly articles, and a collection of annotated primary documents.

Assignments:

Weekly quizzes (on Canvas): 35%

Class participation and short weekly reflections: 30%

Decision analysis paper (8 – 10 pages): 35%

Prerequisites and Special Comments: English 1110.xx, or completion of GE Foundation Writing and Information Literacy Course, or permission of instructor. Not open to students with credit for 569. GE historical study course.

History 3501- U.S. Diplomacy: 1920 to Present

Instructor: Parrott, Joseph

Days/Time: TR, 3:55-5:15PM

Description: Since 1920, the United States has played a dominant role in international affairs due to its massive economy, unrivaled military, and global cultural influence. Historians have often referred to this era as “the American century,” a term coined by Time Magazine publisher Henry Luce in February of 1941. However, Luce’s editorial was as much a call to action as it was an accurate description: as late as 1941, the nation was still debating its desired role in world affairs. Far from a dedicated superpower, the United States was and remains a country whose foreign relations are hotly contested. The nation has struggled to discern a consistent path between opposing tendencies of democracy, empire, isolationism, internationalism, national security, and the role of defense in daily life. At the same time, many countries have militantly resisted projections of American power.

In this course, we will explore a sampling of these contests and the sometimes contradictory foreign policies they produced. While focusing on the specific policy history of the United States, we will also assess the impact American actions have had across the globe, foreign responses to the United States, the changing contexts that transformed official thinking, and the decentralization of the international system. The course will ultimately seek to have you engage directly with the ways U.S. foreign policymaking has affected and responded to global and domestic events, and what this means for the future of American foreign affairs.

Please note, this is an upper level history course and will require your active engagement with a larger amount of regular weekly reading and viewing assignments.

Prerequisites and Special Comments: Prereq or concur: English 1110.xx, or completion of GE Foundation Writing and Information Literacy Course, or permission of instructor. GE historical study course. This course fulfills Group North America, post-1750, CPD, SOJ for history majors or it can fulfill a GE requirement.

History 4015H- Honors Seminar in History: American Legal History Since 1830

Instructor: Stebenne, David

Days/Time: M, 9:35AM-12:20PM

Description: An examination of the leading legal-historical controversies in the United States since 1830. Emphasis on the judiciary’s role in resolving major legal and political disputes, such as those arising out of government support for industrialization and a modern market economy, anti-slavery, pacifist agitation during wartime, efforts to achieve equality before the law for black people and women, reproductive rights, privacy, the rights of criminal suspects and defendants, legislative redistricting, church-state relations, the death penalty, and mass incarceration.

Required Texts / Assigned Readings:

Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America (1835), vol. 1
Earl M. Maltz, Dred Scott and the Politics of Slavery (2007)
Eric Foner, The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution (2019)
Paul Kens, Lochner v. New York: Economic Regulation on Trial (1998)
Marc Lendler, Gitlow v. New York: Every Idea an Incitement (2012)
John Fliter and Derek Hoff, Fighting Foreclosure: the Blaisdell Case, the Contract Clause, and the Great Depression (2012)
Roger Daniels, The Japanese American Cases: the Rule of Law in Time of War (2013)
Gregory S. Jacobs, Getting Around Brown: Desegregation, Development, and The Columbus Public Schools (1998)
Carolyn Long, Mapp v. Ohio: Guarding Against Unreasonable Searches and Seizures (2006)
John W. Johnson, Griswold v. Connecticut: Birth Control and the Constitutional Right of Privacy (2005)
David M. Oshinsky, Capital Punishment on Trial: Furman v. Georgia and The Death Penalty in Modern America (2010)

Assignments: Attendance at, and lively participation in, all class meetings; a 3-5-page research paper prospectus; and a first draft and a final draft of a 15-page research paper.

Prerequisites and Special Comments: Prereq or concur: Honors standing, English 1110.xx, a grade of C or above in History 2800, and any 3000-level History course; or permission of instructor.

History 4525- Religion and U.S. Foreign Relations

Instructor: Nichols, Christopher

Days/Time: W, 12:45-3:30PM

Description: What role has religion played in shaping U.S. foreign relations? This guiding question will propel how the course examines the interplay between religion and the U.S.’s foreign policies, with greatest emphasis on the period from the late 19th century through the present (with brief analysis of colonial era to the 1880s).

We will study how the U.S.’s leaders, including presidents from George Washington to Joe Biden, have drawn on religious rhetoric to justify or explain their decision-making, with a special focus on times of crisis. In addition to surveying the major events in U.S. foreign relations, we will explore the role of religion and religious ideas in shaping national identity, core values, and what scholars have termed “American civil religion.” We will seek to understand how seemingly amorphous cultural influences, such as religion and ideology, informed both elite and public perceptions about what role the United States should or could play in the world. Throughout this course, we also will assess the influence that religious interest groups as well as religious perspectives have had on the U.S.’s policies toward China, Southeast Asia, Russia, Central and South America, the Caribbean, Africa, Europe, and the Middle East.

Please note that this course takes as a guiding insight that religious beliefs and language have had a significant impact on the worldviews of individuals involved at all levels of foreign relations and thus religion—including all faiths as well as agnostic and atheistic arguments—has been an influential factor in the U.S.’s role in and with the world. There is no advocacy of religion in this course, only the academic study of role of religion in the U.S.’s foreign relations.

Required Texts / Assigned Readings:

Andrew Preston, Sword of the Spirit, Shield of Faith: Religion in American War and Diplomacy (New York: Knopf, 2012);
Raymond Haberski, God and War: American Civil Religion since 1945 (Rutgers University Press, 2013).

Assignments: Class Participation; 1 in-class midterm; 2 response papers; 1 major research paper; 1 class discussion presentation + class leadership.

History 2201- Ancient Greece and Rome

Instructor: Vanderpuy, Peter

Session 2 (10/16/2023 – 12/06/2023)

Days/Time: Online, Asynchronous

Description: Comparative historical analysis of ancient Mediterranean civilizations of the Near East, Greece, and Rome from the Bronze Age to Fall of Rome.

Prerequisites and Special Comments: Prereq or concur: English 1110.xx, or completion of GE Foundation Writing and Information Literacy Course, or permission of instructor. Not open to students with credit for 1211 or 301. GE historical study course. GE foundation historical and cultural studies course.

History 2210- Classical Archaeology

Instructor: Turner, James

Days/Time: Online, Asynchronous

Description: Introduction to the principles, methods, and history of archaeological investigation in the ancient Greek and Roman world, illustrated through a selection of major classical sites.

Prerequisites and Special Comments: Prereq or concur: English 1110.xx, or completion of GE Foundation Writing and Information Literacy Course, or permission of instructor. Not open to students with credit for Clas 2301 or HistArt 2301. GE cultures and ideas and historical study and diversity global studies course. GE foundation historical and cultural studies course. Cross-listed in Clas 2301 and HistArt 2301.

History 2221- Introduction to the New Testament: History and Literature

Instructor: Harrill, J. Albert

Days/Time: MWF, 10:20–11:15AM

Description: This course introduces the historical study of the New Testament writings, from outside the framework of any particular belief system. You will examine early Christianity in its ancient context of Judaism and the Greco-Roman world, examine its controversies that surrounded a self-appointed apostle named Paul, and compare its diverse biographical narratives (“gospels”) about a Jewish messiah named Jesus.

Required Texts / Assigned Readings:

The HarperCollins Study Bible: Student Edition.
Bart D. Ehrman, A Brief Introduction to the New Testament.
Burton H. Throckmorton, Jr., Gospel Parallels: A Comparison of the Synoptic Gospels.

Assignments: Two unit tests, one interpretative paper, and a final examination.

Prerequisites and Special Comments: Prereq or concur: English 1110.xx, or completion of GE Foundation Writing and Information Literacy Course, or permission of instructor. Not open to students with credit for Clas 2221, 2221E, 2401, or 2401E. GE for lit and historical study course. GE foundation lit, vis and performing arts and historical and cultural studies course. Cross-listed in Clas.

History 3210- Archaic Greece

Instructor: Anderson, Greg

Days/Time: TR, 11:10AM-12:30PM

Description: Survey of Greek history from Neolithic Age (7000-3000 BC) to end of the Archaic Era (700-480 BC).

History 3215- Sex and Gender in the Ancient World

Instructor: Sessa, Kristina

Days/Time: TR, 12:45-2:05PM

Description: Introductory survey of women, gender, and sexual relations in the ancient Mediterranean world, especially Greece and Rome.

Prerequisites and Special Comments: Prereq or concur: English 1110.xx, or completion of GE Foundation Writing and Information Literacy Course, or permission of instructor. Not open to students with credit for Clas 3215. GE historical study and diversity global studies course. GE foundation historical and cultural studies and race, ethnicity and gender div course. Cross-listed in Clas.

History 3216- War in the Ancient Mediterranean World

Instructor: Vanderpuy, Peter

Days/Time: Online, Asynchronous

Description: A survey of military history from the late Bronze Age to the fall of the Roman Empire in the West.

Prerequisites and Special Comments: Prereq or concur: English 1110.xx, or completion of GE Foundation Writing and Information Literacy course, or permission of instructor. Not open to students with credit for 2212. GE historical study and diversity global studies course.

History 3223- The Later Roman Empire

Instructor: Ross, Alan

Days/Time: WF: 9:35am – 10:55am

Description: An advanced survey of Rome's history in the fourth, fifth, and sixth centuries with focus on themes of decline, fall, and transformation.

History 4215- Seminar in Greek History

Instructor: Anderson, Greg

Days/Time: T, 2:15-5:00PM

Description: This is a seminar-style course for undergraduates that focuses on the politics and culture of ancient Athens, the largest and most powerful of all Greek city-states during the classical period. It offers students the chance to pursue a more advanced level of enquiry into Greek history through close reading of a variety of primary and secondary texts, giving them a fuller sense of how scholars reconstruct the past from often scanty and problematic literary and archaeological evidence.

Employing a synoptic approach, the course will explore all major components of Athenian political life—ritual, political, social, economic, cultural, and military, looking at how all this “fits together” as a way of life. Along the way, a number of significant issues and questions will also be raised, including: How was Athenian demokratia different from modern liberal democracy? Why did the Athenians dedicate so much time, energy, and expense to ritual activities? Where women considered full members of the polis? How did the Athenians justify their use of slave labor? What does the Parthenon “mean”? Was the polis of the Athenians really the cultural “ancestor” of the modern western nation-state?

Required Texts / Assigned Readings: All free on Carmen; no purchases required.

Assignments: Preparation of weekly readings, regular attendance, contributions to discussions; final term paper.

Prerequisites and Special Comments: History major/minor, or HISTORY 3210 or HISTORY 3211. Prereq or concur: English 1110.xx, or completion of GE Foundation Writing and Information Literacy Course, or permission of instructor.

History 4217- Seminar in Late Antiquity: Dreams and Dream Interpretation in Antiquity: Social Mores and Daily Life

Instructor: Harrill, J. Albert

Days/Time: WF, 12:45–2:05PM

Description: All people dream. But what do dreams tell? Do all dreams require interpretation? What light does professional dream interpretation shed on the history of social mores? This course tackles these big questions historically, from the perspective of the ancient world, by examining the only professional dream handbook to have survived from Greco-Roman antiquity: Artemidorus, The Interpretation of Dreams (early third century C.E.). Study of Artemidorus moves us across disciplines, thanks to its most notable admirer in modern times, Sigmund Freud, and Artemidorus today continues to find numerous enthusiastic readers––and even practical users. That is because the book presents a sort of beginner’s manual, in which Artemidorus collects dreams from a wide range of people–– men and women, boys and girls, free and enslaved, rich and poor, artisans and athletes––in order to teach the tricks of the trade. This primary text is a fascinating entrée into the question of how to conceptualize slavery, gender, religion, social mores, and the family in the ancient world. It teaches us how to do history “from below,” beyond the standard textbook evidence produced by and for the aristocratic elite. We learn a great deal about the ordinary lives of Greeks living under the Roman Empire. A close reading of this primary text in its cultural context will characterize how this seminar will proceed.

Required Texts / Assigned Readings:

Artemidorus. The Interpretation of Dreams. Translated by Martin Hammond. With an Introduction and Notes by Peter Thonemann. Oxford University Press, 2020.
Kelly, Christopher. The Roman Empire: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2006.
Thonemann, Peter. An Ancient Dream Manual: Artemidorus’ Interpretation of Dreams. Oxford University Press, 2020.

Assignments: Two unit tests, one interpretative paper, and a final examination.

Prerequisites and Special Comments: Prereq or concur: English 1110.xx, or completion of GE Foundation Writing and Information Literacy course, or permission of instructor, a grade of C or above in History 2800, and any 3000-level History course.

History 2350- Islam, Politics, and Society in History

Instructor: Kamali Sarvestani, Mehrak

Days/Time: Online, Asynchronous

Description: Introduction to the manner in which Islam has interacted with politics in the Middle East and vicinity from the rise of Islam through the present.

Prerequisites and Special Comments: Prereq or concur: English 1110.xx, or completion of GE Foundation Writing and Information Literacy Course, or permission of instructor. Not open to students with credit for 340. GE historical study course. This course fulfills Group Near East, pre & post -1750, RLN, PCS for history majors or it can fulfill a GE requirement.

History 2353- The Middle East Since 1914

Instructor: Akin, Yiğit

Days/Time: MW, 12:45-2:05PM

Description: This course presents a foundational overview of the political, social, economic, and cultural history of the Middle East from the late-nineteenth century to the present. It aims to go beyond the simplistic generalizations and stereotypes about the region and its people by introducing students to the complexities of the Middle East’s modern history and its present. The course also aims to enable students to adopt an informed and critical perspective on the region’s current conflicts and challenges. Among other issues, we will pay particular attention to the following topics: nineteenth century reformism; economic dependency, imperialism, and anti-imperialism; nationalism and nation state formation; the Israeli-Palestinian conflict; women’s experiences; U.S. involvement in the region; the Islamic Revolution in Iran; the rise of Islamist movements; and recent upheavals in the Middle East. This course offers students the chance to explore these issues through a variety of media—academic works, film, fiction, and other primary sources.

Required Texts / Assigned Readings:

Sandy Tolan, The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East (Bloomsbury, 2007) ISBN-13: 978-1596913431 [Paperback]
All other readings will be available online through Carmen.

Assignments: Attendance & participation, quizzes, response papers, writing assignment, take home final exam

Prerequisites and Special Comments: Prereq or concur: English 1110.xx, or completion of GE Foundation Writing and Information Literacy Course, or permission of instructor. Not open to students with credit for 3358 or 540.05. GE historical study course. GE foundation historical and cultural studies course.

History 2402- History of East Asia in the Modern Era

Instructor: Reed, Christopher

Days/Time: WF, 2:20-3:40PM

Description: History 2402 (synchronous online) will introduce the histories of the societies of East Asia (China, Korea, and Japan) starting in about 1600. To a higher degree than History 2401, which is a useful but certainly not required preparation, History 2402 is organized on a 3-way comparative model (“how do China, Japan, or Korea compare to each other in our historical period?”); one of our goals is to learn to think comparatively about history and these societies. We will survey key historical phenomena (covering political, military, social, and intellectual themes) that have distinguished each country in the long modern era. For most of the semester, the course will be organized chronologically and thematically. In addition to providing a basic narrative of East Asian civilization since 1600, the course will introduce students to important written and cinematic sources and to historical writing.

Required Texts / Assigned Readings: a textbook, primary sources, selections from feature films

Prerequisites and Special Comments: Prereq or concur: English 1110.xx, or completion of GE Foundation Writing and Information Literacy Course, or permission of instructor. GE historical study and diversity global studies course. GE foundation historical and cultural studies course. History 2401 is NOT a prerequisite for History 2402.

History 2675- The Indian Ocean: Communities and Commodities in Motion

Instructor: McDow, Thomas

Days/Time: MWF, 11:30AM-12:25PM

Description: This course surveys the long history of the Indian Ocean as a vital arena of world history. We need the Indian Ocean to understand Mahatma Gandhi, Osama bin Laden, and Freddie Mercury. The Indian Ocean was a meeting point for the peoples and cultures of Africa, the Middle East, and Asia long before European colonization, and it has become a site of intense innovation in our global age. It helps of understand the history of East Africa, Arabia, India, and Southeast Asia in relation to each other. Part of the story is based on the sea because the Indian Ocean is home to monsoon winds, Sinbad the sailor, and a long history of piracy from British "privateers" Davy Jones and William Kidd to more recent Somali freebooters. But it is also a story of landed empires and strategic port cities. We'll look at the production and circulation of commodities, from spices and textiles, to ivory and cloves, to opium and oil. Slaves and indentured servants crossed the Indian Ocean to work plantations in the past, and we can see new coerced labor regimes in the rise of Persian Gulf states. The Indian Ocean has been the home of Islamic scholarly networks and a focus in the global war on terror. Finally, the Indian Ocean is also an ideal place to study the history of environmental change: the dodo was hunted extinct on one of the ocean's islands in the 17th century, and global warming threatens island nations like the Maldives. In short, this is a course that will provide an introduction to a fascinating region.

Prerequisites and Special Comments: Prereq or concur: English 1110.xx, or completion of GE Foundation Writing and Information Literacy Course, or permission of instructor. This course fulfills Group Global, post-1750, CCE, REN or it can fulfill GE historical study and diversity global studies course.

History 3376- The Silk Road: Commerce and Culture in Eurasia

Instructor: Levi, Scott

Days/Time: MW, 11:10AM–12:30PM

Description: This course introduces students to the great commercial and cultural exchanges that took place in Central Asia—at the heart of the Eurasian landmass—from antiquity to the modern age. It is be grounded in a survey of the geography, environmental factors, indigenous cultures and economies of the Chinese, Indian, European, Iranian, and broader Islamic civilizations in order to analyze the nature and mechanisms of the trade and artistic, religious, cultural, scientific and technological exchanges that took place along the routes known since the late nineteenth century as the “Silk Road.” As these exchanges occurred along the monsoon-driven sea-lanes as well as over the more famous Central Asian caravan routes, both sea and land routes comprise the “Silk Road(s)” of this particular course.

The course is not in any sense a survey of Eurasian history. It will focus on major themes, not chronologies of dynastic, administrative or military history, except in so far as these topics contribute to an understanding of Silk Road exchanges. The study of these commercial and cultural exchanges charts vibrant links among dynamic, sophisticated, and geographically distant civilizations. Considerable attention will be directed to the merchant groups, soldiers, state actors, and pastoral-nomadic peoples who mediated these exchanges.

Assignments:

Four books
Coursework includes a map quiz, mid-term, research paper and final exam.

History 3426- History of Modern Japan

Instructor: Reed, Christopher

Days/Time: TR, 2:20-3:40PM

Description: This course focuses on key aspects of the history of Japan from about 1800 to approximately 2000. It provides a nuanced understanding of the historical development of the country within internationally comparative frameworks. Attention will be given to Japan's cultural and political foundations in the late Tokugawa shogunal period, changes undertaken with the Meiji Restoration, the Taisho and early Showa periods (including militarism, nationalism, imperialism, cultural change, & economic development), followed by World War II, the American Occupation, and postwar state and society. Organized chronologically, the course seeks a balance between detailed examination of particular periods and exploration of elements of continuity and discontinuity in state (re)formation, economy, and society. By the end of the semester, you will be able to analyze the evolution of Japan from a semi-feudal state into a modern world power, discuss the impact of Western influence on Japanese society in historical perspective, and evaluate the interactions of modern Japan with its neighbors and the world.

Required Texts / Assigned Readings: A textbook, two novels, and a sourcebook

Prerequisites and Special Comments: Although not required, the course assumes students have had college-level history courses above the introductory level. Familiarity with topics covered in History 2402, "East Asian History since 1600" is useful but not required. Prereq or concur: English 1110.xx, or completion of GE Foundation Writing and Information Literacy Course, or permission of instructor. GE historical study course. This course fulfills Group East Asia, post-1750, CCE, PCS for history majors or it can fulfill a GE requirement.

History 3475 – History of the Arab-Israeli Conflict

Instructor: Yehudai, Ori

Days/Times: TR, 9:35am – 10:55am

Description: This course follows the history of the Arab-Israeli conflict from its inception in the late 19th century to the early 21st century. Course materials include secondary historical sources, a variety of primary documents, short stories, memoirs and films. These materials will provide students with an in-depth understanding of the history of the conflict from multiple perspectives.

History 4375- Seminar in Islamic History: Modern Turkey: Past & Present

Instructor: Akin, Yiğit

Days/Time: R, 2:15-5PM

Description: Why is Turkey always in the news? Now more than ever, Turkey’s geopolitical role, its ambitious foreign policy, its complex and ever-shifting internal dynamics, and finally its crisis-ridden relations with the United States, the European Union, and its neighbors in the Middle East are making the country a prime focus of interest for journalists, scholars, and policy makers alike. This research seminar provides a nuanced understanding of the past and present of modern Turkey. It explores the disintegration of the Ottoman Empire in the aftermath of World War I, the formation of a secular, republican Turkish nation-state, and the country’s dramatic socio-political transformation since the 1950s in response to domestic, regional, and international challenges. We will also critically consider Turkey’s fluctuating relations with the U.S., the meteoric rise of political Islam, and the war against Kurdish separatism. For the final project, students will produce a research paper based principally upon primary source material.

Assignments: Active participation in discussions every week, preliminary report, annotated bibliography, final research paper

Prerequisites and Special Comments: Prereq or concur: English 1110.xx, or completion of GE Foundation Writing and Information Literacy course, or permission of instructor, a grade of C or above in History 2800, and any 3000-level History course.

History 2701- History of Technology

Instructor: Otter, Chris

Days/Time: WF, 9:35-10:55AM

Description: From stone tools, fire and stirrups and to drones, iPhones and the Anthropocene, human history is inexplicable without understanding technology. This course provides an introductory overview of the multiple ways in which technology has shaped human practices throughout history. It has two sections: the first half, running up to week 5, offers a history of technology from 3.3 million years ago to the twentieth century. The second half explores numerous themes in the history of technology, including war, gender, disaster, culture and the environment. Although the bulk of the course focuses on developments in Europe and the US, a global focus is maintained throughout.

Assignments: 3 response papers and a final paper.

Prerequisites and Special Comments: Prereq or concur: English 1110.xx, or completion of GE Foundation Writing and Information Literacy Course, or permission of instructor.

History 2702- Food in World History

Instructor: Cahn, Dylan

Days/Time: Online, Asynchronous

Description: Survey of the history of food, drink, diet and nutrition in a global context.

Prerequisites and Special Comments: Prereq or concur: English 1110.xx, or completion of GE Foundation Writing and Information Literacy course, or permission of instructor. GE historical study and diversity global studies course. GE theme sustainability course.

History 2703- History of Public Health, Medicine and Disease

Instructor: Jones, Marian Moser

Days/Time: WF, 8:00-9:20AM

Description: Survey of the history of public health, disease and medicine in a global context.

Assignments: 3 response papers and a final paper.

Prerequisites and Special Comments: Prereq or concur: English 1110.xx, or completion of GE Foundation Writing and Information Literacy Course, or permission of instructor. GE historical study and diversity global studies course. This course fulfills Group Global, post-1750, ETS for history majors or it can fulfill a GE requirement.

History 2911- Climate Change: Mechanisms, Impacts, and Mitigation

Instructors:
Harris, Jim
Hood, Jim
Saltzman, Matthew

Days/Time: TR, 2:20-3:40PM

Description: Examination of the basic science of climate change, of the ability to make accurate predictions of future climate, and of the implications for global sustainability by combining perspectives from the physical sciences, the biological sciences, and historical study. Team-taught with faculty members in EarthSc and EEOB.

Assignments: Online reading essays; In class quizzes; Team Poster project; Final paper

Prerequisites and Special Comments: Prereq: Not open to students with credit for History 1911, EarthSc 1911, 2911, EEOB 1911, or 2911. GE historical study and nat sci bio and nat sci phys course. GE theme sustainability and lived environments course.

This course is cross-listed in EarthSc and EEOB as ES 1911 and EEOB 1911

Recitations available M, 9:10-10:05AM, 10:20-11:15AM, 12:40-1:35PM. 1:50-2:45PM. W, 10:20-11:15AM, 12:40-1:35PM, 1:50-2:45PM

History 3701- History of American Medicine

Instructor: Harris, Jim

Days/Time: Online, Asynchronous

Description: Survey of the history of American medicine from the Colonial period through the twentieth century.

Prerequisites and Special Comments: Prereq or concur: English 1110.xx, or completion of GE Foundation Writing and Information Literacy course, or permission of instructor. GE historical study course. GE theme health and well-being course.

History 3708- Vaccines: A Global History

Instructors:
Harris, Jim
Summers, Katie

Days/Time: MTWR, 11:30AM-12:25PM

Description: This course examines the history and biology of vaccines. We explore the discovery and development of vaccines, along with the political and cultural controversies that have surrounded them for centuries. Team-taught course with faculty member in Pharmacy.

Prerequisites and Special Comments: Prereq: Not open to students with credit for Phr 3708. GE historical study course. GE theme health and well-being course. Cross-listed in Phr.

History 3711- Science and Society in Europe, from Copernicus to Newton

Instructor: Goldish, Matthew

Days/Time: TR, 2:20-3:40PM

Description: A survey of the history of science and its place and relationship to European society in the early modern period. Students will understand the various strands that constitute the scientific revolution in early modern Europe, modern intellectual history, how revolutions in thought occur, and will practice analytical and communications skills in working with both secondary and primary sources.

Prerequisites and Special Comments: Prereq or concur: English 1110.xx, or completion of GE Foundation Writing and Information Literacy course, or permission of instructor. GE historical study course. GE Theme Number, Nature, Mind.

History 4705- Seminar in the History of Environment, Technology, and Science

Instructor: Moore, Erin

Days/Time: TR, 11:10AM-12:30PM

Description: Chronic. Continuing or occurring again and again for a long time; always present or encountered (Merriam-Webster). This seminar explores the emergence of “chronic”—the disease category and the illnesses it names—over the course of the twentieth century. We will start from the perspective that delineating the “chronic” from the acute, and the noncommunicable from the viral, is more than a matter of nosology, or the biomedical classification of diseases. Rather, we consider the political economic, environmental, and techno-social conditions that gave rise to chronic illness in modern history, primarily in the United States but also around the world. We will critically assess the “epidemiologic transition,” or notion that chronic illnesses accompany global economic development. From historical and multidisciplinary perspectives, we will examine the role played by public health policy, the pharmaceutical industry, changing infectious disease environments, disability and treatment activism, popular culture, and doctors, patients, and caregivers in shaping chronic illness in the contemporary moment.

Course materials include academic writings, journalism, documentary films, podcasts, visual art, and memoir and biography. Key to the seminar will be the discussion and development of semester-long, archival and/or oral historical projects on the history of chronic illnesses, whether contemporary (e.g. diabetes, depression) or forgotten (e.g. chlorosis, hysteria). Course materials include academic writings, journalism, documentary films, podcasts, visual art, and memoir and biography. Key to the seminar will be the discussion and development of semester-long, archival and/or oral historical projects on the history of chronic illnesses, whether contemporary (e.g. diabetes, depression) or forgotten (e.g. chlorosis, hysteria).

Required Texts / Assigned Readings: No purchases required. All texts will be made available via Carmen. Course materials include academic writings, journalism, documentary films, podcasts, visual art, and memoir and biography. Key to the seminar will be the discussion and development of semester-long, archival and/or oral historical projects on the history of chronic illnesses, whether contemporary (e.g. diabetes, depression) or forgotten (e.g. chlorosis, hysteria). Course materials include academic writings, journalism, documentary films, podcasts, visual art, and memoir and biography.

Assignments: Key to the seminar will be the discussion and development of semester-long, archival and/or oral historical projects on the history of chronic illnesses, whether contemporary (e.g. diabetes, depression) or forgotten (e.g. chlorosis, hysteria).

Prerequisites and Special Comments: Prereq or concur: English 1110.xx, or completion of GE Foundation Writing and Information Literacy Course, or permission of instructor.  

History 1211- Western Society to 1600: Rise, Collapse, and Recovery

Instructor: Parker, Geoffrey

Days/Time: Online, synchronous recitation each Monday and 2 asynchronous lectures each week

Description: For better or worse, Western societies have become extremely prominent in the world today – not just in the West but (thanks to Karl Marx and the Internet) around the world. How did this process begin? What is distinctive about Western values? These are two of the questions that this course seeks to answer. In addition we will examine How Things Happen:

Why did the West develop at such an early stage the right to free speech guaranteed in this country by the First Amendment?
Why were 50% of all Western populations in this period under the age of 20?
How could 167 Spaniards overthrow the Inca Empire, with perhaps 8 million subjects, and go on to dominate much of South America?

The course also offers strategies on how to identify, among masses of facts, the aberration from the trend, the cause from the contingent, the important from the incidental, and the continuities among the changes.

Required Texts / Assigned Readings:

Wiesner-Hanks, Crowston, Perry & McKay, A history of Western society, Volume I: From Antiquity to the Enlightenment, 13^th edition (2020)
Wiesner-Hanks, Evans, Wheeler and Ruff, Discovering the Western Past, Volume I: to 1789, 7^th edition (2015)

Assignments:

Watch all materials for the course posted online
Read and discuss all assigned readings; attend and participate in all group discussions (20% of total grade)
Complete all assigned recitation exercises (20% of total grade)
One 5-page term paper (30% of total grade)
One final exam (30% of total grade)20

Prerequisites and Special Comments: Prereq or concur: English 1110.xx, or completion of GE Foundation Writing and Information Literacy Course, or permission of instructor. Not open to students with credit for 1210, 2201, 2201H, 2202, 2203, or 2205. This course is available for EM credit. GE historical study and diversity global studies course. GE foundation historical and cultural studies course.

Recitations available M, 10:20-11:15AM, 11:30AM-12:25PM, 12:40-1:35PM

History 1212- European History II

Instructor: Bond, Elizabeth

Days/Time: Online, Asynchronous

Description: This class introduces students to the political, economic, social, and cultural history of modern Europe from roughly 1500 to the present. This course contextualizes European history within a global frame. We will study the major changes of the modern period, including: the Protestant and Catholic Reformations; the emergence of new models of states and empires; the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment; the Age of Revolutions, democracy, and human rights; the Industrial Revolution, urbanization, and popular politics; the First World War, technology, and diplomacy; World War II and the Holocaust; the Cold War and the collapse of communism; decolonization and globalization; and life in Europe today. This survey course also focuses on how these larger trends were experienced by people. Readings, lectures, and films will highlight how these moments in modern European history were lived.

Prerequisites and Special Comments: Prereq or concur: English 1110.xx, or completion of GE Foundation Writing and Information Literacy Course, or permission of instructor. Not open to students with credit for 1210, 2203, 2204. This course is available for EM credit. GE historical study and diversity global studies course

History 2202- Introduction to Medieval History

Instructor: Vanderpuy, Peter

Days/Time: Online, Asynchronous

Description: Survey of medieval history from the late Roman Empire to the early sixteenth century. Sometimes this course is offered in a distance-only format.

Prerequisites and Special Comments: Prereq or concur: English 1110.xx, or completion of GE Foundation Writing and Information Literacy course, or permission of instructor. Not open to students with credit for 1211. GE historical study and diversity global studies course. GE foundation historical and cultural studies course.

History 2204H- Modern European History

Instructor: Kern, Stephen

Online, Synchronous

Days/Time: TR, 2:20-3:40PM

Description: Examination of selected themes from the history of Modern Europe from the French Revolution to the present.

Prerequisites and Special Comments: Prereq or concur: Honors standing and English 1110.xx, or permission of instructor. Not open to students with credit for 2204. GE historical study and diversity global studies course. GE foundation historical and cultural studies course.

History 3230- Saints and Demons in Medieval Europe

Instructor: Butler, Sara

Days/Time: TR, 2:20-3:40PM

Description: The Christian tradition deeply penetrated medieval European society. Faith was not reserved for weekends: it infiltrated every aspect of medieval life. This course plans to examine the Christian tradition and how it developed into a variety of cultures of devotional practices: institutional culture (the monastic tradition), intellectual culture (the scholastics), mystical culture (including the ascetics), militant culture (Crusaders), papal culture (and the adoption of imperial power) and daily culture (the ordinary layperson). While Christianity dates back to the late antique period, many of these cultures of Christianity developed as part of or in response to the era of church reform (previously known as the Gregorian Reform) of the long twelfth-century (c.1050-1215). This transformative moment saw the development of universities and the scholastic tradition; the monasticization of the secular church and reform of the clergy, including the imposition of celibacy on clergy outside the monastic environment; the expanding power of the pope both within the church and within Christendom; the emergence of Christendom as a unifying concept, prompting anxieties about those within Christendom who undermined or threatened that stability; the expansion of Christianity to the Holy Land and the development of a new Crusading mentality; and a new individualized sense of Christianity that sparked the mystical turn and affective piety. While the Catholic church today exerts far less power and influence over the lives of Western society, its historical influence lingers on. Its teachings molded beliefs that remain important today about the universe, the body, the soul, Christian salvation, and holy war. The institutions that developed in this period, such as imperial papal power, and the inquisition, continued to exert political power well into the late 19th and early 20th centuries. This course will also give us the opportunity to trace the foundations of modern ideals when it comes to feminism, individualism, spiritual economics, and a tradition of resistance to authoritarianism.

Required Texts / Assigned Readings:

John Shinners, ed., Medieval Popular Religion, 1000-1500: A Reader. 2nd ed. (U of Toronto Press, 2007). $42.00
John R. Sommerfeldt, Bernard of Clairvaux on the Spirituality of Relationship (Newman Press, 2004). $15.00
Barbara Newman, From Virile Woman to WomanChrist: Studies in Medieval Religion and Literature (U of Penn Press, 1995). $28.00

Assignments: Two short (5-6 pages) papers on the Sommerfeldt and Newman books; a short movie paper (4-5 pages). Discussion posts (up to a paragraph each). Final exam.

History 3239- Medieval England

Instructor: Butler, Sara

Days/Time: TR, 9:35-10:55AM

Description: This course is a study of political, religious, social, and cultural developments in England from the Anglo-Saxons to the year 1500. This course will attempt to address a variety of themes, including: England’s mixed cultural heritage, the emergence of Parliament, the development of common law, interaction and exchange with England’s neighbors and invaders, religious transformations and outgrowths, debunking myths about England’s monarchs, and English proto-nationalism. Some of the topics we will address: the Anglo-Saxon foundations, King Alfred the Great, Women’s Status in Celtic Ireland, Saint Patrick, Vikings and the Danelaw, the Bayeux Tapestry, the Anarchy, “The Lion in Winter,” King John and Magna Carta, the growth of common law, the Jews in England, King Arthur and the English monarchy, Robin Hood, Margery Kempe, the plague, the Hundred Years’ War, the Great Rising of 1381, and the Wars of the Roses.

Required Texts / Assigned Readings:

C. Warren Hollister, Robert C. Stacey, and Robin Chapman Stacey, The Making of England: To 1399, vol. 1, 8th ed. (Cengage, 2001). (Available on Carmen)
Ben Waggoner, ed., The Sagas of Ragnar Lodbrok (Troth Publications, 2009). MUST BE PURCHASED. $14.00
All other readings can be found on Carmen/Canvas as pdfs.

Assignments:

Discussion posts
Document Analysis The Sagas of Ragnar Lodbrok
Research Essay – you get to choose the subject
Mid-term exam
Final exam

History 3247 – Magic and Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe (1450-1750)

Instructor: Goldish, Matthew

Days/Time: 11:10am – 12:30pm

Description: Investigation of the history of European witchcraft, focusing on intellectual, religious, and social developments and on the great witchcraft trials of the early modern period.

Prerequisites and Special Comments: Prereq: English 1110.xx, or permission of instructor. GE historical study and diversity global studies course. GE Theme Traditions, Cultures, and Transformations. This course fulfills Group Europe, pre-1750, ETS, RLN, for history majors or it can fulfill a GE requirement.

History 3250- Revolutionary and Napoleonic Europe, 1750-1815

Instructor: Bond, Elizabeth

Days/Time: MW, 9:35-10:55AM

Description: A survey of European but especially French history from the crisis of the Old Regime to the end of the wars of the French Revolution.

History 3253- 20^th Century Europe to 1950

Instructor: Kern, Stephen

Days/Time: WF, 2:20-3:40PM

Description: This course covers one of the most dynamic periods in modern European history from 1900 to 1950 that spans the two world wars. It will concentrate on Modernist culture, World War I, the Russian Revolution, Weimar Germany, the rise of Nazism, and Hitler and the holocaust.

Required Texts / Assigned Readings:

Richard Hamilton, Decisions for War, 1914-1917
Rex Wade, The Russian Revolution, 1917
Eric Weitz, Weimar Germany: Promise and Tragedy
Rudolph Binion, Hitler and the Holocaust

Assignments: Three papers, 5 pages each.

History 3254- Europe Since 1945: From the Iron Curtain to Fortress Europe

Instructor: Dragostinova, Theodora

Days/Time: WF, 11:10AM-12:30PM

Description: This upper-level lecture course explores the post-World War II history of Europe through the examination of several discrete themes: the rebuilding of the continent after the war; the origins and development of the Cold War in Europe; the notion of Iron Curtain as part of Cold War rhetoric and practice; the end of European empires and the Cold War in the Third World; postcolonial and labor migrations and the making of multicultural Europe; protest movements and youth counterculture; European economic and political integration before and after 1989; the emergence of the notion of Fortress Europe in relation to migration within and to the old continent; and changes in historical memory and European identities over time. Tracing developments both in Western and Eastern Europe comparatively, the class interrogates the shifting meanings of West, East, and Europe from the Cold War until today.

Required Texts / Assigned Readings:

Most readings will be provided via Carmen, but students will also read three works of fiction, which may include (don’t purchase yet):

Peter Schneider, The Wall Jumper: A Berlin Story (Pantheon Books, 1983).
Buchi Emecheta, Second-Class Citizen (George Braziller, 1983).
Alexandar Hemon, The Book of My Lives (Picador, 2014).

Assignments:

Weekly reflection papers: 30%
Two midterm essay exams: 30% (15% each)
Final essay exam or research project: 20%
Attendance: 10%
Participation in discussion: 10%

History 3260- 18^th-19^th Century Britain

Instructor: Otter, Chris

Days/Time: TR, 11:10AM-12:30PM

Description: This lecture course provides a survey of British history, including imperial history, from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth century. It covers many dimensions of British history: political, economic, social, religious, medical, technological, scientific, and environmental. The central themes of the course are the rise of liberalism as a political and economic theory, the development of industrial and urban society, the dramatic growth of the British Empire, the Irish famine, individualism and self-help, and the rise of social problems. The course will explore how Britain and its governments attempted to generate economic strength while simultaneously ameliorating the ‘social question’. The tensions between economic freedom and social protection remain central to British politics, just as they do in America.

Assignments: 3 response papers and a final paper.

History 4255E- Research in Modern Europe: Europe Since 1989: Multiple Europes after the Cold War

Instructor: Dragostinova, Theodora

Days/Time: R, 2:20-5:05PM

Description: This seminar will focus on the contemporary history of Europe since the end of the Cold War. We will read and debate studies of the political, economic, and social transformations in the old continent connected to the collapse of the communist regimes, the birth and expansion of the European Union, and the effects of the 2008 economic recession, paying attention to developments in Western, Eastern, and Southern Europe. We will also explore European attempts to accommodate the presence of diverse populations in an increasingly multicultural continent, including the treatment of migrants and refugees as well as attitudes to Roma, Muslims, and Black Europeans.

After reviewing the literature in the first half of the semester, during the second half each student will write a 15-to-20-page historiographical or primary source-based paper on a topic of their choice. The students will make extensive use of the OSU Library resources.

Required Texts / Assigned Readings:

Readings have not been finalized, but might include:

Philipp Ther, Europe Since 1989: A History (Princeton University Press, 2018).
Slavenka Drakulic, Café Europa Revisited: How to Survive Post-Communism (Penguin, 2021).
Agata Pyzik, Poor but Sexy: Culture Clashes in Europe East and West (Zero Books, 2014).
Joe Sacco, Safe Area Gorazde: The War in Eastern Bosnia, 1992-1995 (Fantagraphics, 2002).
Isabel Fonseca, Bury Me Standing: The Gypsies and Their Journey (Vintage, 1996).
Ian Buruma, Murder in Amsterdam: Liberal Europe, Islam, and the Limits of Tolerance (Penguin, 2007).
Johnny Pitts, Afropean: Notes from Black Europe (Penguin, 2019).
Grada Kilomba, Plantation Memories: Episodes of Everyday Racism (Unrast Verlag, 2018).

Assignments:

Weekly discussion posts: 30%
Attendance and participation in discussion: 10%
Work on research paper: 15%
Paper presentation and peer feedback: 10%
Final 15-to-20-page paper: 35%

Prerequisites and Special Comments: Prereq or concur: Honors standing, English 1110.xx, a grade of C or above in History 2800, and any 3000-level History course; or permission of instructor. This course fulfills the research seminar requirement for History Majors.

History 4255E- Colonial Encounters

Instructor: Conklin, Alice

Days/Time: M, 2:15-5PM

Description: City councils around Britain will review statues linked to colonialism after the toppling in Bristol of a statue to Edward Colston, a 17th-century slave trader.

This research seminar will explore the world’s often brutal -- and always complex – colonial encounters. Special attention will be paid to the French, British and Belgian colonial empires in the heart of Africa in the 19^th and 20^th centuries, as well as the legacies of colonialism in Europe and the former colonies themselves. But empire-building has affected all societies on all continents at different points in time, not just modern nation-states (the Roman Empire, the Aztec Empire, the Hapsburg Empire, the Nazi Empire, the Soviet Empire, the Japanese Empire, the American Empire, to just list some). Students in the seminar are encouraged to develop research topics on past empires in any part of the world for which they can find primary sources.

The course has two specific objectives: 1) to familiarize students with the broader history of “colonialism” and “empire-building” 2) to complete a research paper on a topic related to the topic of colonial empires based principally upon primary source material. Themes we will consider in class meetings include: the difference between land-based and overseas empires; the role of slavery in ancient and modern empires; the economic, political and moral motives for colonial expansion; the emergence of modern racist and humanitarian ideologies connected to empires; forms of colonial violence, from imperial wars to legal codes to genocide; strategies of resistance and accommodation to colonial rule; and men and women’s different roles in empire.

Required Texts / Assigned Readings: (All other readings are on Carmen)

Stephen Howe, Empire: A Very Short Introduction [also available as an e-book in Thompson library]
Adam Hochschild, King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
Sven Lindqvist, Exterminate All the Brutes: One Man's Odyssey into the Heart of Darkness and the
Origins of European Genocide [also available as an e-book in Thompson library]
Bakary Diallo & Lamine Senghor, White War, Black Soldiers: Two African Accounts of World War I. Translated by Nancy Erber and William Peniston. Edited, with an Introduction and Annotations, by George Robb [also available as an e-book in Thompson library]

Assignments: Three 3-page papers due during the semester on the assigned reading.

A 15-20 page research paper based on a set of documents relating to a particular colonial encounter (newspapers, diaries, court records, novels/images/documentaries, digitized archives, and on-line data bases are all possible). As part of the final research project, students will turn in a research topic, an annotated bibliography and a rough draft, and do a 15-minute presentation to the class on your research findings during the final class meeting.

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History 2454- History of Antisemitism

Instructor: Judd, Robin

Days/Time: WF, 11:10AM-12:30PM

Description: Jews long have been singled out for persecution. From Europe to the Middle East to the United States, Jewish people have faced various forms of hostility and discrimination. This class will examine some of the most important moments of persecution encountered by the Jewish people because of their ethnic and religious identities as Jews.

Throughout the semester, we will explore definitions, forms, and examples of antisemitism, as well as discuss Jewish responses to it. We will analyze earlier forms of Jew hatred, and we will examine how antisemitism has changed. We also will discuss current antisemitism throughout the world, and we will try to understand its recent impetuses and iterations.

Required Texts / Assigned Readings: (tentative)

Sol Goldberg, et al, Key Concepts in the Study of Antisemitism

Assignments: Attendance, weekly reading questions, midterm, final, short paper.

Prerequisites and Special Comments: Prereq or concur: English 1110.xx, or completion of GE Foundation Writing and Information Literacy Course, or permission of instructor. Not open to students with credit for 333 or JewshSt 2454. GE historical study course. GE foundation historical and cultural studies course. Cross-listed in JewshSt.

History 2475- History of the Holocaust

Instructor: Judd, Robin

Days/Time: WF, 9:35-10:55AM

Description: We continue to debate the Holocaust’s history even though it has been over seventy years since the Allies liberated the last of the Nazi camps. How did the Nazis rise to power? When did the Nazi government begin to plan for the Final Solution? Who was culpable in planning and executing the genocide? This course will peel away at some of these questions. Together we will examine the state-sponsored murder of millions of Jews and non-Jews by the Nazis and their collaborators during World War II. We will study the individuals, institutions, historical events, and ideologies that allowed for the Holocaust to occur.

Required Texts / Assigned Readings:

Doris Bergen, War and Genocide
Nina Siegel, Diary Keepers

Assignments: Attendance, weekly reading questions, midterm, final, short paper.

Prerequisites and Special Comments: Prereq or concur: English 1110.xx, or completion of GE Foundation Writing and Information Literacy Course, or permission of instructor. Not open to students with credit for JewshSt 2475. GE historical study course. GE foundation historical and cultural studies course. Cross-listed in JewshSt.

History 4475 – Seminar in Jewish History

Instructor: Ori Yehudai

Days/Time: 12:45 – 3:30

Advanced research and readings on selected topics in Jewish History.

Prereq or concur: English 1110.xx, a grade of C or above in History 2800, and any 3000-level History course; or permission of instructor.

History 3100- Colonial Latin America

Instructor: Delgado, Jessica

Days/Time: TR, 12:45-2:05PM

Description: Mayan, Aztec, and Incan Empires; the Spanish and Portuguese conquests and the transplanting of Iberian institutions; the Baroque period; the Bourbon Century and the Enlightenment.

Prerequisites and Special Comments: Prereq or concur: English 1110.xx, or completion of GE Foundation Writing and Information Literacy Course, or permission of instructor. Not open to students with credit for 533.01. GE historical study course. This course fulfills Group Latin American, pre-1750, CCE, GEM for history majors or it can fulfill a GE requirement.

History 3106- History of Mexico

Instructor: Smith, Stephanie

Days/Time: Online, Asynchronous

Description: Mexico faces many crucial issues today: immigration, the environment, cartels, the rights of women and indigenous peoples, economic and trade issues, the role of the United States, and others. Although these topics are current and timely, their historical context can be located throughout several centuries of struggle. Beginning with the Olmecs, Maya, and Aztecs, “HIST 3106” analyzes Mexico’s dynamic history during the pre-Conquest period, the colonial era, the time of Independence, the nineteenth-century, and the present. Throughout the semester we will examine patterns of conflict and negotiation, including Hernan Cortes’ invasion of the Aztec Empire (or the Spanish-Aztec War, 1519–21), and the great Mexican Revolution (1910-1917), which shaped Mexico’s historical legacies. In addition to a study of Mexico’s politics, we also will explore the ways in which everyday people participated in and influenced cultural and political events. The role of women, race, and ethnicity will be analyzed throughout the lectures, as will Mexico’s transcultural interactions. And lastly, the course will consider Mexico’s rich culture, including movies, literature, and artists.

Required Texts / Assigned Readings:

There will be one required textbook that students will buy, and 3 other texts that will be available online through the OSU library.

History 4125- Seminar in Latin American History: Revolutions and Revolutionaries in Modern Latin America

Instructor: Smith, Stephanie

Days/Time: R, 2:20-5:05PM

Description: What is a revolution? Why are successful revolutions such rare events? Why have so many revolutions failed and so few succeeded? Who are the revolutionaries? What is guerrilla warfare, and why do people resort to guerrilla warfare? What happens after the revolution, and how do revolutionaries rebuild/create a new government? What is the difference between a revolution and social movement? And historically, what was the complex relationship between the United States and modern Latin American countries, and why was the U.S. interested in Latin America?

This course examines these and other questions to analyze the history and meanings of revolutions and revolutionaries in modern Latin America. Starting with Mexico’s great revolution, we will move forward to analyze other revolutions and social movements in Guatemala, Cuba, Nicaragua, and others. Throughout this class we will discuss the causes of revolution, their changing historical nature, and revolutionary outcomes. Additionally, we also will consider dictatorships in Chile, Argentina, and Brazil to examine the search for social justice and reform. To better understand the inclusion of all peoples within the revolutionary experience, the course includes a consideration of the concepts of class, gender, and race and ethnicity. In this manner, we will pay special attention to historical actors to explore participation from the ground level up. We also will look at U.S. involvement in Latin American countries, including the role of the U.S. in revolutions and in the creation of a post-revolutionary society. Through an examination of these various historical factors, this class ultimately will provide a context for many of the major issues facing Latin American today.

Required Texts / Assigned Readings:

TBA, although most of the assigned readings will be available online through the OSU library or on Carmen.

Prerequisites and Special Comments: Prereq or concur: English 1110.xx, or completion of GE Foundation Writing and Information Literacy course, or permission of instructor, a grade of C or above in History 2800, and any 3000-level History course.

History 2550- History of War

Instructor: Grimsley, Mark

Days/Time: Online, Asynchronous

Description: “History of War” is an introduction to the salient concepts and problems involved in the study of military history. Although it examines war from prehistoric times to the present, the course is thematic rather than strictly chronological—less a survey of wars and military developments per se than an examination of the major concepts involved in the study of war. In addition, the course focuses extensively on the warrior codes of various cultures (Greek, Roman, Japanese, Native American, etc.). The study of the warrior code will include a practical exercise on incorporating the warrior ethos into one’s own life.

Students will achieve an understanding of the causes, conduct, and consequences of war, as well as how various societies—past and present, western and nonwestern—have understood and practiced war. They will also hone their skills at critical writing and analysis, and gain greater insight into the way historians explore the human condition.

Required Texts / Assigned Readings: (tentative)

Shannon E. French, The Code of the Warrior: Exploring Warrior Values Past and Present.
Victor Davis Hanson, Carnage and Culture: Landmark Battles in the Rise of Western Power.
Wayne E. Lee, Waging War: Conflict, Culture, and Innovation in World History.
Kelly McGonigal, The Willpower Instinct: How Self-Control Works, Why It Matters, and What You Can Do to Get More of It.
William Strunk and E.B. White, The Elements of Style, 4th edition.
Selected articles and primary source documents.

Assignments:

Participation in Discussions – 10 percent of course grade
Personal Challenge Assignment – 10 percent (for details, see special comments, below)
Quizzes – 30 percent
Completion and Submission of Surveys – 5 percent
Midterm Examination – 20 percent
Final Exam – 25 percent

Prerequisites and Special Comments: Prereq or concur: English 1110.xx, or completion of GE Foundation Writing and Information Literacy Course, or permission of instructor. Not open to students with credit for 380. GE historical study and diversity global studies course. This course fulfills the historical study GE & Group Global, post-1750, PCS for the history major or it can fulfill the historical study GE requirement.

Special Comment: The Personal Challenge Assignment (PCA) is a practical exercise to carry the warrior ethos from the realm of mere head knowledge to an opportunity to experience it personally and, in the process, to discover and explore the warrior within oneself. The essence of the warrior ethos is aggressive, self-disciplined action taken on behalf of a cause larger than oneself. Self-improvement counts as such a cause, because it creates a person larger than one’s present self, a person better equipped to deal with the demands, stresses, and opportunities of life.

Students will select one of the following challenges: 1) overcoming procrastination; 2) mental and emotional health; 3) general exercise; 4) strength training; 5) weight control; 6) improving study skills. Students will be divided into Discussion Groups based on their selected challenge.

History 3550- War in World History, 500-1650

Instructor: Douglas, Sarah

Days/Time: Online, Asynchronous

Description: Study of the causes, conduct, and consequences of warfare around the world, 500-1650. Sometimes this course is offered in a distance-only format.

Prerequisites and Special Comments: Prereq: English 1110.xx and any History 2000-level course, or permission of instructor. GE historical study and diversity global studies course.

History 3551- War in World History, 1651-1899

Instructor: Grimsley, Mark

Days/Time: Online, Asynchronous

Description: Study of the causes, conduct, and consequences of warfare around the world, 1650-1900. Sometimes this course is offered in a distance-only format.

History 3552- War in World History, 1900-Present (The Experience of War in the 20^th Century)

Instructor: Cabanes, Bruno

Days/Time: TR, 9:35-10:55AM

Description: The past hundred years have changed the nature of war. Industrial warfare and global conflicts led to an inexorable intensification of violence. From trench warfare in World War I to ethnic cleansing in the 1990s, the total number of deaths caused by or associated with war has been estimated at the equivalent of 10% of the world’s population in 1913. In the course of the century, the burden of war shifted increasingly from armed forces to civilians, to the point where non-combatants now comprise some 80 or 90% of war victims. This lecture course investigates the blurring of distinction between combatants and non-combatants, as well as the experiences of ordinary men and women who lived through the wars of the 20th Century. It covers events such as World War I, the Spanish Civil War, World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War, and topics such as the experience of captivity, sexual violence in wartime, children in war, or genocides.

Required Texts / Assigned Readings:

Primo Levi, Survival in Auschwitz
Anonymous, A Woman in Berlin
Henri Alleg, The Question
Jean Hatzfeld, Machete Season. The Killers in Rwanda Speak
CA Bayly, Birth of the Modern World, 1780-1914 (Blackwell Publishing, 2003)

Assignments: The final grade in the course will be an average of the four grades given for: a short 2000-word paper (20%), the mid-term examination (25%), lecture Quick Writes/Quizzes (25%); the final examination (30%).

History 3590- Wars of Empire and Decolonization

Instructor: Walker, Lydia

Days/Time: TR, 11:10AM-12:30PM

Description: HIST 3590 begins with the Age of Revolutions in the Americas, and the promise and limits imposed on new citizens in former Atlantic world colonies. The course then shifts to colonial conquest and resistance in South Asia and the African continent, the evolving category of imperial subject in contrast to metropolitan citizen. It then focuses on World War I & II as wars between empires, with an emphasis on colonial soldiering, imperial competition, and continuing distinctions between imperial subject and state citizen. It also analyzes the linkages between the Second World War and decolonization, underscoring the changes and continuities within warfare as formal declarations of war drop away, and its links to representative democracy and the rights and privileges of citizenship. Themes of race and colonial difference, gender and evolving distinctions and definitions between soldier, civilian, and citizen thread their way through course material which includes primary, secondary, and multimedia sources. If “war made the state,” as Charles Tilly famously observed, it also made and remade forms and modes of citizenship. In this way, war-making stimulated some of the social and political movements that went on to change regimes and transform who held membership to states, i.e., were citizens, as the world became increasingly diverse and interconnected through empire and subsequently decolonization.

Required Texts / Assigned Readings:

CA Bayly, Birth of the Modern World, 1780-1914 (Blackwell Publishing, 2003)

Assignments: Attendance/participation, brief responses (dependent upon course size), in-class midterm, take-home final.

History 2800- Introduction to the Discipline of History

Instructor: Cashin, Joan

Days/Time: Online, Asynchronous

Description: Investigation of the methods and analytical approaches historians use to understand the past.

Prerequisites and Special Comments: Prereq or concur: English 1110.xx, or completion of GE Foundation Writing and Information Literacy Course, or permission of instructor.

History 2800- Introduction to the Discipline of History

Instructor: Sessa, Kristina Marie

Days/Time: TR, 9:35-10:55AM

Description: Investigation of the methods and analytical approaches historians use to understand the past.

Prerequisites and Special Comments: Prereq or concur: English 1110.xx, or completion of GE Foundation Writing and Information Literacy Course, or permission of instructor.

History 2800H- Introduction to Historical Methods

Instructor: Conklin, Alice

Days/Time: MW, 11:10AM-12:30PM

Description: This course is designed for Honors history majors. History 2800H introduces history majors to the field of history, and particularly to the historian’s craft. We will look at the different purposes for studying history, a wide array of sources that are used in examining the past, and the diverse approaches to the past that historians embrace. Because the best way to learn what historians do is to practice the craft ourselves, we will spend the semester focusing on a modern global history that is, in fact, close at hand: that of “Ohio and the World.” Our readings will highlight related global and local developments six different dates: 1753, 1803, 1853, 1903, 1953, and 2003. Topics include the “French and Indian” War, racism and abolitionism, German immigrants’ participation in the American Civil War, the global women’s suffrage campaign in Ohio, 1960s student protests at Kent State, and more recent ties between Japan and Ohio manufacturing. We will use a combination of primary sources (archives, newspapers, images, political treatises, and maps) available in digital format or in local collections, such as the OSU rare book room and archives, the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library, and the Ohio History Connection, as well as secondary sources.

Required Texts / Assigned Readings:

Geoffrey Parker, Richard Sisson, William Russell Coil, ed. Ohio and the World, 1753-2053
Course packet of primary sources

Assignments:

Students will be required to contribute to class discussions, complete several short writing assignments, one visual/aural presentation, and one longer research essay based on newspaper archives on a topic of your choosing.

Attendance and active participation is required. There will be several class sessions when we will not meet in order to free students to work on their individual projects.

History 4015H- Honors Seminar in History: American Legal History Since 1830

Instructor: Stebenne, David

Days/Time: M, 9:35AM-12:20PM

Required Texts / Assigned Readings:

Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America (1835), vol. 1
Earl M. Maltz, Dred Scott and the Politics of Slavery (2007)
Eric Foner, The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution (2019)
Paul Kens, Lochner v. New York: Economic Regulation on Trial (1998)
Marc Lendler, Gitlow v. New York: Every Idea an Incitement (2012)
John Fliter and Derek Hoff, Fighting Foreclosure: the Blaisdell Case, the Contract Clause, and the Great Depression (2012)
Roger Daniels, The Japanese American Cases: the Rule of Law in Time of War (2013)
Gregory S. Jacobs, Getting Around Brown: Desegregation, Development, and The Columbus Public Schools (1998)
Carolyn Long, Mapp v. Ohio: Guarding Against Unreasonable Searches and Seizures (2006)
John W. Johnson, Griswold v. Connecticut: Birth Control and the Constitutional Right of Privacy (2005)
David M. Oshinsky, Capital Punishment on Trial: Furman v. Georgia and The Death Penalty in Modern America (2010)

Assignments:

Attendance at, and lively participation in, all class meetings; a 3-5-page research paper prospectus; and a first draft and a final draft of a 15-page research paper.

Prerequisites and Special Comments: Prereq or concur: Honors standing, English 1110.xx, a grade of C or above in History 2800, and any 3000-level History course; or permission of instructor.

History 4125- Seminar in Latin American History: Revolutions and Revolutionaries in Modern Latin America

Instructor: Smith, Stephanie

Days/Time: R, 2:20-5:05PM

Required Texts / Assigned Readings:

TBA, although most of the assigned readings will be available online through the OSU library or on Carmen.

Prerequisites and Special Comments: Prereq or concur: English 1110.xx, or completion of GE Foundation Writing and Information Literacy course, or permission of instructor, a grade of C or above in History 2800, and any 3000-level History course.

History 4215- Seminar in Greek History

Instructor: Anderson, Greg

Days/Time: T, 2:15-5:00PM

Required Texts / Assigned Readings: All free on Carmen; no purchases required.

Assignments: Preparation of weekly readings, regular attendance, contributions to discussions; final term paper.

History 4217- Seminar in Late Antiquity: Dreams and Dream Interpretation in Antiquity: Social Mores and Daily Life

Instructor: Harrill, J. Albert

Days/Time: WF, 12:45–2:05PM

Required Texts / Assigned Readings:

Artemidorus. The Interpretation of Dreams. Translated by Martin Hammond. With an Introduction and Notes by Peter Thonemann. Oxford University Press, 2020.
Kelly, Christopher. The Roman Empire: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2006.
Thonemann, Peter. An Ancient Dream Manual: Artemidorus’ Interpretation of Dreams. Oxford University Press, 2020.

Assignments: Two unit tests, one interpretative paper, and a final examination.

Prerequisites and Special Comments: Prereq or concur: English 1110.xx, or completion of GE Foundation Writing and Information Literacy course, or permission of instructor, a grade of C or above in History 2800, and any 3000-level History course.

History 4255E- Colonial Encounters

Instructor: Conklin, Alice

Days/Time: M, 2:15-5PM

Description: City councils around Britain will review statues linked to colonialism after the toppling in Bristol of a statue to Edward Colston, a 17th-century slave trader.

Required Texts / Assigned Readings: (All other readings are on Carmen)

Stephen Howe, Empire: A Very Short Introduction [also available as an e-book in Thompson library]
Adam Hochschild, King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
Sven Lindqvist, Exterminate All the Brutes: One Man's Odyssey into the Heart of Darkness and the
Origins of European Genocide [also available as an e-book in Thompson library]
Bakary Diallo & Lamine Senghor, White War, Black Soldiers: Two African Accounts of World War I. Translated by Nancy Erber and William Peniston. Edited, with an Introduction and Annotations, by George Robb [also available as an e-book in Thompson library]

Assignments: Three 3-page papers due during the semester on the assigned reading.

History 4255E- Research in Modern Europe: Europe Since 1989: Multiple Europes after the Cold War

Instructor: Dragostinova, Theodora

Days/Time: R, 2:20-5:05PM

Required Texts / Assigned Readings:

Readings have not been finalized, but might include:

Philipp Ther, Europe Since 1989: A History (Princeton University Press, 2018).
Slavenka Drakulic, Café Europa Revisited: How to Survive Post-Communism (Penguin, 2021).
Agata Pyzik, Poor but Sexy: Culture Clashes in Europe East and West (Zero Books, 2014).
Joe Sacco, Safe Area Gorazde: The War in Eastern Bosnia, 1992-1995 (Fantagraphics, 2002).
Isabel Fonseca, Bury Me Standing: The Gypsies and Their Journey (Vintage, 1996).
Ian Buruma, Murder in Amsterdam: Liberal Europe, Islam, and the Limits of Tolerance (Penguin, 2007).
Johnny Pitts, Afropean: Notes from Black Europe (Penguin, 2019).
Grada Kilomba, Plantation Memories: Episodes of Everyday Racism (Unrast Verlag, 2018).

Assignments:

Weekly discussion posts: 30%
Attendance and participation in discussion: 10%
Work on research paper: 15%
Paper presentation and peer feedback: 10%
Final 15-to-20-page paper: 35%

History 4375- Seminar in Islamic History: Modern Turkey: Past & Present

Instructor: Akin, Yiğit

Days/Time: R, 2:15-5PM

Assignments: Active participation in discussions every week, preliminary report, annotated bibliography, final research paper

Prerequisites and Special Comments: Prereq or concur: English 1110.xx, or completion of GE Foundation Writing and Information Literacy course, or permission of instructor, a grade of C or above in History 2800, and any 3000-level History course.

History 4475 – Seminar in Jewish History

Instructor: Ori Yehudai

Days/Time: 12:45 – 3:30

Advanced research and readings on selected topics in Jewish History.

Prereq or concur: English 1110.xx, a grade of C or above in History 2800, and any 3000-level History course; or permission of instructor.

History 4525- Religion and U.S. Foreign Relations

Instructor: Nichols, Christopher

Days/Time: W, 12:45-3:30PM

Required Texts / Assigned Readings:

Andrew Preston, Sword of the Spirit, Shield of Faith: Religion in American War and Diplomacy (New York: Knopf, 2012);
Raymond Haberski, God and War: American Civil Religion since 1945 (Rutgers University Press, 2013).

Assignments: Class Participation; 1 in-class midterm; 2 response papers; 1 major research paper; 1 class discussion presentation + class leadership.

Prerequisites and Special Comments: Prereq or concur: English 1110.xx, or completion of GE Foundation Writing and Information Literacy course, or permission of instructor, a grade of C or above in History 2800, and any 3000-level History course.

History 4625- Seminar in Women’s/Gender History

Instructor: Soland, Birgitte

Days/Time: W, 12:45-3:30PM

Description: Advanced research and readings on selected topics in Women’s/Gender History.

Prerequisites and Special Comments: Prereq or concur: English 1110.xx, or completion of GE Foundation Writing and Information Literacy Course, or permission of instructor.

History 4705- Seminar in the History of Environment, Technology, and Science

Instructor: Moore, Erin

Days/Time: TR, 11:10AM-12:30PM

Description: Advanced research and readings on selected topics in Environmental History, Technology, and Science.

Prerequisites and Special Comments: Prereq or concur: English 1110.xx, or completion of GE Foundation Writing and Information Literacy Course, or permission of instructor.

History 3620- Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History in the U.S., 1940-Present

Instructor: Rivers, Daniel

Days/Time: WF, 11:10AM-12:30PM

Description: An overview of LGBT culture and history in the U.S. from 1940 to the present. Students will examine changes in LGBT lives and experiences during the last half of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st century, as well as the intersections of race, sexuality, and class, and how these categories have affected sexual minority communities and broader US law and culture.

Prerequisites and Special Comments: Prereq or concur: English 1110.xx, or completion of GE Foundation Writing and Information Literacy Course, or permission of instructor. This course fulfills Group North America, post-1750, SOJ, WGS or it can fulfill GE historical study and diversity soc div in the US course.

History 4625- Seminar in Women’s/Gender History

Instructor: Soland, Birgitte

Days/Time: W, 12:45-3:30PM

Description: Through a series of case studies, this seminar will focus on female literacy and women’s reading from the European Middle Ages to the present. Among other topics, we will explore some of the earliest historical examples of female literacy; the history of printing and the book; the gradual expansion of women’s reading and writing skills from the 16th through the 18th century; the introduction of mandatory schooling and 19th century pedagogical strategies; the history of libraries; literature and mass culture; the politics of reading; and the significance of reading for pleasure. In other words, we will seek to answer some of the following basic, yet essential questions: Who learned to read and write? When? Why? How were these skills taught? Which reading materials have historicallt been available to girls and women ? And why have so many girls and women embraced reading for pleasure as a pastime?

Required Texts / Assigned Readings: All readings, consisting in a mixture of historical primary sources and academic studies, will be made available on Carmen or online. Students will not be required to purchase any books or other materials for this course.

Assignments: In addition to completing weekly readings, all students will be expected to produce a 15-page research paper on a topic related to women, reading and literacy. The paper will be due at the end of the semester, but students will be expected to develop their research ideas early in the semester and work on components of the project throughout the course.

Prerequisites and Special Comments: Prereq or concur: English 1110.xx, or completion of GE Foundation Writing and Information Literacy Course, or permission of instructor.  

History 1682- World History from 1500 to the Present

Instructor: Limbach, Eric

Session 2 (10/16/2023 – 12/06/2023)

Days/Time: Online, Asynchronous

Description: Survey of the human community, with an emphasis on its increasing global integration, from the first European voyages of exploration through the present.

Prerequisites and Special Comments: Prereq or concur: English 1110.xx, or completion of GE Foundation Writing and Information Literacy Course, or permission of instructor. Not open to students with credit for 2642. This course is available for EM credit. GE historical study and diversity global studies course. GE foundation historical and cultural studies course.

History 2500- 20th Century International History

Instructor: Parrott, Joseph

Days/Time: Online, Asynchronous

Description: Examines international political, economic, and military relations from the origins of World War I through the break up of the Soviet Union. Sometimes this course is offered in a distance-only format.

History 2650- The World since 1914

Instructor: Limbach, Eric

Days/Time: Online, Asynchronous

Description: Global perspective on major forces that shaped the world since 1914. Provides students with factual knowledge and a critical interpretive framework for responsible global citizenship.

History / Religious Studies (RELSTDS) 3680- Religion and Law in Comparative Perspective

Instructor: Weiner, Isaac

Days/Time: TR, 2:20-3:40PM

Description: Comparative, interdisciplinary approach to studying religion and law. Drawing on concrete cases, historical studies, and theoretical literature, the course explores how the relationship between religion and law has been configured differently in different liberal democracies, such as the U.S., France, and Israel, and what this might mean for contemporary debates.

Prerequisites and Special Comments: Prereq: Not open to students with credit for RelStds 3680. GE historical study and diversity global studies course. GE theme citizenship for div and just wrld course. Cross-listed in RelStds

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History 2080- African American History to 1877

History 2302- History of Modern Africa, 1800 - 1960s

History 3307- History of African Health and Healing

History 3312- Africa & World War II

History 3314- From Rubber to Coltan: A Long History of Violence and Exploitation in Central Africa

History 3080- History of Slavery in the US

History 3085- African American History Through Contemporary Film

History 1151 – American History to 1877

History 1152 – American History since 1877

History 2001- Launching America

History 2002- Making America Modern

History 2010- History of American Capitalism

History 3001- American Political History to 1877

History 3014- Gilded Age to Progressive Era, 1877-1920

History 3015- From the New Era to the New Frontier: The United States, 1921-1963

History 3016- The Contemporary U.S. since 1963

History 3017- The Sixties

History 3030- History of Ohio

History 3040 - The American City

History 3041- American Labor History

History 3501- U.S. Diplomacy: 1920 to Present

History 4015H- Honors Seminar in History: American Legal History Since 1830

History 4525- Religion and U.S. Foreign Relations

History 2201- Ancient Greece and Rome

History 2210- Classical Archaeology

History 2221- Introduction to the New Testament: History and Literature

History 3210- Archaic Greece

History 3215- Sex and Gender in the Ancient World

History 3216- War in the Ancient Mediterranean World

History 3223- The Later Roman Empire

History 4215- Seminar in Greek History

History 4217- Seminar in Late Antiquity: Dreams and Dream Interpretation in Antiquity: Social Mores and Daily Life

History 2350- Islam, Politics, and Society in History

History 2353- The Middle East Since 1914

History 2402- History of East Asia in the Modern Era

History 2675- The Indian Ocean: Communities and Commodities in Motion

History 3376- The Silk Road: Commerce and Culture in Eurasia

History 3426- History of Modern Japan

History 3475 – History of the Arab-Israeli Conflict

History 4375- Seminar in Islamic History: Modern Turkey: Past & Present

History 2701- History of Technology

History 2702- Food in World History

History 2703- History of Public Health, Medicine and Disease

History 2911- Climate Change: Mechanisms, Impacts, and Mitigation

History 3701- History of American Medicine

History 3708- Vaccines: A Global History

History 3711- Science and Society in Europe, from Copernicus to Newton

History 4705- Seminar in the History of Environment, Technology, and Science

History 1211- Western Society to 1600: Rise, Collapse, and Recovery

History 1212- European History II

History 2202- Introduction to Medieval History

History 2204H- Modern European History

History 3230- Saints and Demons in Medieval Europe

History 3239- Medieval England

History 3247 – Magic and Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe (1450-1750)

History 3250- Revolutionary and Napoleonic Europe, 1750-1815

History 3253- 20th Century Europe to 1950

History 3254- Europe Since 1945: From the Iron Curtain to Fortress Europe

History 3260- 18th-19th Century Britain

History 4255E- Research in Modern Europe: Europe Since 1989: Multiple Europes after the Cold War

History 4255E- Colonial Encounters

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History 2550- History of War

History 3550- War in World History, 500-1650

History 3551- War in World History, 1651-1899

History 3552- War in World History, 1900-Present (The Experience of War in the 20th Century)

History 3590- Wars of Empire and Decolonization

History 2800- Introduction to the Discipline of History

History 2800- Introduction to the Discipline of History

History 2800H- Introduction to Historical Methods

History 4015H- Honors Seminar in History: American Legal History Since 1830

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History 3253- 20^th Century Europe to 1950

History 3260- 18^th-19^th Century Britain

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